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Recent Works of Direction & Choreography

      • 2003 Nov. / <The Reply of Mr. G> (G先生的回答) Dance Theater (a program in 2003 Macao Fringe Festival) / Programme note: The warning signal is “ON”. At one corner, there are people in hysteria, mourning for the souls ravaged by this broken world; there are people busy looking for narcotics and let carry away; there are people keep moving forward as a prove of survival; there are people finding pleasure in it for they have come to the door of the rainbow path………………After all, this is a sorrow ending or a yearning outset?

      • 2004 March / <Encounter with Alice of 2004> (遇上2006的愛麗斯) Contemporary Dance (a program in 14th Macao Arts Festival) / Programme note: Alice is wandering in the lost land full of broken hearts and souls. However, who knows? In a beautiful day of 2004, Alice meets Chelsea Cat, she finally stops her fatigued footsteps and there, she raises one simple questions to Chelsea Cat: "Which way I ought to go from here ?"

      • 2005 June / "2 girls, 4 dialogues" (兩個女子的四段對話) Contemporary Dance (duet, graduation work of the 3-years Choreography course, Macao Conservatoire - Dance School) / Programme note: Two girls open up their conversation from funny topics to emotional issues.

      • 2005 Nov. / "Type M Syndrome" (M型病候群) Dance Theatre (a program in 2005 Macao Fringe Festival) / Programme note: A group of native born teenagers having different experience of Macau, the rapidly evolving small city, talk to Macau with the attempts of twisting bodies, varying strange noises and chaotic visions
      • 2007 Nov. / "A Hundred Ghats Down The Ganges" (河岸的100個伽特) Dance Theatre (a program in 2007 Ox Warehouse Theatre Season) / Programme note: The boat gently rows along the west bank of the river. Looking from a distance, one will be mesmerized by the morning life at the ghats. People start their day by bathing in the Ganges and end up the day bathing in the Ganges, never change and never stop, life is completely embraced by the grace of the Holy River.

      • 2009 Nov. / "Dancersice" (習作舞展)Dance Exhibition (a dance project by Comuna de Pedra and Violet Dance Company) / Programme note: What is your intention and how is your attitude when creating? Is there any difference in terms of essence and meaning between practicing daily exercises and doing creative work ? "Exercise" is a non-stop, continuous conversation between body and mind. When we are doing exercise, we could purely focus on the subject to practice, contemplate, construct and deconstruct, overthrow, test and further expand. This is a continuous, self-motivated and conscious creative behaviour.
      • 2010 March / "Frangance of the mind - A Retrospective of Lalan's work" Exhibition Opening Performance (<蕙景蘭心>謝景蘭藝術回顧展 ﹣ 開幕演出)/ a solo dance piece performed with live music at the Exhibition Opening in Macao Art Museum.)